About Book

In this, the first biography of Flaubert to be written for many years, Geoffrey Wall brilliantly recreates the life and times of a writer of immeasurable talent and influence - a writer who wrote to within an inch of his life and in the process left a body of work that stands comparison with the greatest writers of the age.

About Geoffrey Wall

Geoffrey Wall teaches French at the University of York. He also works as a translator, travel writer and literary biographer. His acclaimed translation of Madame Bovary was published in 1992.